altruism

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selfishness
egocentric
egocentrically
egocentricity
egoistic
egoistically
hoggish
hoggishly
inconsiderate
inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
self-absorbed
self-absorption
self-centred
self-centredly
self-interest
self-serving
self-servingly
selfish
selfishly
selfishness

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Saddening, shocking and upsetting

Examples of egoism

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How could anything so infuriatingly nebulous possibly elucidate egoism or altruism?
This is a telling criticism only if we confuse the age-old debate about psychological egoism with the argument over evolutionary biology.
Some were genuine, but the pettybourgeois egoism of others, their refusal to engage in real struggles, irritated the master.
The perspective of rational egoism proves highly useful for criticizing oppressive commitments.
Luckily, we do not have to choose between these two dismal options, of rational egoism or commitment to an unjust form of group agency.
Importantly, these internal mechanisms are directly relevant to the egoism-altruism debate.
The traditional selfish egoism assumption of rational choice requires dilemmas to be solved by either adding some likely punishment to defection or reward to co-operation.
It encouraged ' egoism ', the ' dissolvant of each society ', and prevented public spiritedness.
He identifies three different principles regarding utility maximization: descriptive (psychological egoism), normative (instrumental rationality), and definitional.
To the extent that it does appear to exist, should it be regarded as a covert form of egoism?
Of course, egoism, as a matter of the history of the discipline, is an ethical theory and, indeed, an important one.
The same point, however, cannot be made about the cognitions that egoism produces.
The reestablishment of internal mechanisms enlightens answers to critical questions surrounding the egoism-altruism debate.
Loving woman is thus an act of egoism and cruelty which, in idealising her, fails to recognise her true nature.
We think it would be unfortunate if stipulatively defining egoism or altruism in behavioristic terms were to hamstring scientific research into its mentalistic aspects.
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